Badger's Axial SCX-10 build w/ Proline CGR body & Accessories

[badger]

Big thanks to Axial for making another stellar product! The SCX-10 went together extremely fast and just like the AX-10 it was a breeze to put together. And thanks to Chino63 for helping me out with the build.

Pulled everything out of the box and got ready to build.




Grabbed my Axial tool kit and the manual and got started.






I always start my builds by putting the tires and rims together. I just love offroad tires . The tires were very easy to mount to the stock beadlocks.








When I working with the second bead and mounting the second beadlock ring, I place the rim/tire on another bare wheel so I can firmly push the tire bead into the wheel then place the beadlock ring down on the tire and start adding the beadlock screws.






On to the axles, nothing new here, same quality axles from the AX-10, only these come with the nice metal lockers. Full bearings included.




The drive shafts come with metal yokes standard.




Complete Axles






The Transmission is also the same quality tranny from the AX-10, with full bearings as well.








I mounted a 35T Lathe motor with the stock pinion. Used some paper to set the gear mesh just right.




The kit comes with steel frame rails that taper out in the middle to increase articulation and add to the superb out of the box performance of this rig.




Here are the axles with the links and shocks mounted.






The shock towers have three different mounting positions and incorporate a trick body post system.




The contoured skid plate is another one of the SCX-10's great additions.






Here is the complete rolling chassis.

[badger]

For electronics I installed a Mamba Max with a 35T Lathe motor and a spectrum receiver. The final install with have a Novak Goat Crawler system, but I wanted to show this config as well.










I did not want to mount the battery in the stock location on the back of the frame and thought the optional mounting position on the front of the frame was to high with the spacers the manual suggested to install.

So I cut approx. 10mm off of the battery tray spacers to lower it down so the tray sits on top of the battery box and I did not use the spacer for the front mount. This makes the steering servo bottom out on the battery tray when you cycle the entire front suspension straight down. I'm not worried about that because I don't plan on jumping this rig all that much and even with the battery tray lowered 10mm's in the back and even more in the front, the suspension can articulate completely on either side and the servo never hits the battery tray. This should help lower the COG a little.

Here is the two rear spacers not cut down.




You can see in this pic the spacer on the left is cut down on the spacer on the right is stock.




And here is both rear spacers cut down.



With the battery tray installed.










And finally the complete build with the stock body panted a gun metal gray.
















My next addition will be the Novak Goat Crawler system and a Proline CGR with cage.

I can't wait to get this rig out on the trail ASAP!

[Rockcrawler]

Very nice build John.

Are you going to run a stick pack or a nice Lipo?

[Brandon]

Looks great Badger! I am having a hard time keeping myself from pointing out your build mistakes...

[jason]

Damn sweet pics!

[DarkSoul]

Great build Badger, I really enjoyed the build up of mine, these are great kits to assemble.

The only real shortcoming on yours is the use of an Integy product, really drags down a otherwise great kit.

[Stormin2u]

Very nice build thread the photos are exceptional and have a professional quality.

The SCX-10 is a well engineered kit Axial did their homework on this one for sure.

[badger]

Originally Posted by DarkSoul

The only real shortcoming on yours is the use of an Integy product, really drags down a otherwise great kit.

In the crawler world Integy lathe motors have been a staple since the beginning. That changed when Dr. Holmes brought us great hand wound motors and got us hooked on brushless power for our crawlers.

Depending on how the Novak goat system performs and how much run time I get with it will determine if I put this mamba/lathe setup back in. With the current setup running a standard stick pack I know I can ballon the mamba max to make it waterproof and spend all day out at the Bean with a couple packs in my back pocket.

[Wrecker]

Looks good John, the pics are awesome!!

[badger]

Originally Posted by Wrecker

Looks good John, the pics are awesome!!

Thanks. I'm no photographer, but I wanted to take some of the shots with a greater depth of field so not just one corner of the chassis or rig is in focus. I really like how some of them turned out. I love looking at the killer tread of the Flat Irons in both the front and rear of the rig.

[2JSC]

Originally Posted by badger

Thanks. I'm no photographer,...

Could have fooled me.

I want one of these soo bad. :-(

[dpdsurf]

Originally Posted by jason

Damn sweet pics!

No kidding! Axial should hire you for their ad photos (and Dean to build for them). Lookin like we'll have quite a few of these in Folsom. I started mine last night.

[badger]

I ordered my Novak Goat Crawler system from TCSCrawlers and as always it came in extremely fast. Where not supposed to talk prices in a tech thread but I have to ask if anyone knows if Kevin is going crazy or not? His prices are ridiculously low, I paid $169.99 for the Novak Goat Crawler System. I couldn't find anyone that sells them for that cheap, let alone a RCC vendor. Thanks for doing what you do Kevin!

OK, on to the Goat system, the installation was a breeze but as you can see from the pics, the stock location of the ESC with the Goat Crawler motor installed has little wiggle room. Fortunately with this setup, it barely gets warm at all after an hour of solid crawling so I am not worried about the ESC or motor overheating each other.








With this setup, the rig could climb an eight foot, 45 degree incline at Hobby Town Concord's indoor course. It blew me away on how capable this rig is out of the box. The stock Proline 1.9 Flat Iron's provide just enough traction and great looks to make this a true scale crawler.

Here's the 45 degree incline.




The climb is all the way on the left of this picture.

[RCHuffer]

Nice build, love the gun metal gray. did you do anything with the foams, like star cut or just left them as is?

[jason]

For real fun plug a 3s lipo into that goat;)




*not responsible for letting the smoke out, but mine works fine on 3s

[dpdsurf]

Originally Posted by jason

For real fun plug a 3s lipo into that goat;)




*not responsible for letting the smoke out, but mine works fine on 3s

Mine did too for months. Then I made the mistake of adding a dig servo the other day because of the crazy notion to have a rear 2WD option on my SCX10,no smoke but one loud crack noise. Bye bye Goat, it was nice knowing you.

[STANG KILLA SS]

nice photobox and pics.

but truck needs more rainbow.

[bigdodge88]

Nice pics Badger, the body turned out pretty cool too.

Justin

[JAM MaxAmps.com]

Good idea on lower the battery tray. And the pic's look superb.



Jason

[rambo282]

Great pics and build. Is the rock course in HobbyTown free or pay to play? Will be moving into the Fairfield (Cordia Hills) area in a couple of months and that looks like a pretty good place to kill a couple of hours while the wife shops in downtown Walnut Creek.